fresh protests. where the opposition declares war on the referendum on the constitution calling for a repeat of the claims of widespread for. egypt and others continue to reel from the effects of the arab spring some revolutionaries say that. one. of the medical workers. protest health privatization or the activists call for more demonstrations against financial cuts.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here. live in the russian capital. now the main opposition group in egypt has supporters to again occupy the streets on squares in a bid to challenge the first round of the referendum on a new constitution and the national salvation front wants a repeat of the weekend poll claiming it was plagued by an overwhelming fraud. results indicate that fifty six percent approve of the draft constitution which was drawn up by the islamists with the backing of the president and the muslim brotherhood it's vigorously rejected by the opposition who blame the government for turning the constitution into an islamist code and there's still time though if a campaign is against the draft to turn things around before the polls open for the referendum second stage on saturday national salvation front spokesman would is

hoping the opposition's complaints won't remain. right now we want the authorities the election commission to look into the violations and to decide by itself whether this is good enough in order to repeat the first round and in case we are going to go to the second round we want to make sure that the violations are not going to be repeated particularly the lack of judicial supervision there were not enough judges yesterday to look into the or to supervise the vote we also complained about preventing our observers the preservers of human rights groups from attending the counting process according to a decision by the judges we want to attend and be present during the counting and we also complaining about the fact that the muslim brotherhood members were continuing their propaganda inside the polling stations until the last minute trying to influence voters and tried to convince them to vote yes for the constitution claiming that voting would that mean that you are an infidel or that you are against them so we're still holding a lot of hope the president morsi will listen to the voice of wisdom and

considering that this is institution that's dividing the country even if we take the results that are being circulated right now it's not enough definitely in a country after the revolution to have a constitution that's approved by fifty something. and egypt is also a. dot com and they were asking you what the future of the country would face if indeed the new constitution is adopted let's bring up the votes for this hour from here's how it's looking so far about a third if you just over a third believe in the country could turn into a hardline islamic state might even see an eruption of sectarian violence a few expect an uprising among those who believe the revolution has been hijacked some point out that the new constitution does not differ that much from the old one and down to the moment one or two now are saying that egypt will face a new fight for power between the muslim brotherhood and the military go online there's still time for you to get involved and have your say. now is egypt

continues to be gripped by instability it's just one of the countries still feeling the effects of the arab spring the regional. a string of revolt has already claimed tens of thousands of lives and brought down several regimes and with no sign of it stopping some of those who helped usher in the changes and then say they are no better off now than they were so i want to use a really good go went to investigate. it began here in tunisia two years ago when a poverty stricken french vendor set himself on fire in an act of disparate ssion some say he was a hero others say he was a drunkard with a history of psychological problems whatever more hollow was this is real motivation was his act of self-immolation set up a string of events which became known as the arab spring decades old regimes were told bald what came to replace them is hardly what most of the people in these countries had in mind when they were doing the revolutions they wanted freedom of speech and free elections reading the tables and one thing that seems to be very

different result situation this war strife comparison to talk. and comparison to the us before. the revolution personally i don't feel safe and. when we see. all the violence the police saw our of solace for a small part. in from qualis miami i think back to some notion of speech. there are less freedoms right now when it comes to underbid own freedoms there are attacks on individual freedoms every day i received so many messages from girls saying but they were. straight even by police men. who didn't tolerate their or their way or for dressing the system you can patently countries that share the same thing just two

years ago hopes of transition from authoritarian regimes to new democratic forms of government seem to have your altered rising as your vision economies and shambles and increasing just content the pattern is the same internation egypt where people were in the streets again with you you when. sest though only months ago they were rallying in support of the muslim brotherhood and the freedom and justice party during the elections i think a lot of people did vote for the muslim brotherhood in egypt because they wanted economic changes not just getting rid of mubarak and having morsi and morsi will be no he's obviously you know very different political figure to mubarak in terms of his ideology has carried on much the same policies in terms of economic policy in libya the uprising to bloody terror moment that people in the country for over forty years as the host and killed in two thousand and eleven the european government has been struggling to control parts of the country going as far as

beseeching the title but when the need for allegedly providing shelter to tie her supporters the are using heavy machinery to demolish the demolished houses they can't be using now. guys again it's just a feeling people children and now and they have got really sick reaming we would not humanity of the wanted to please had us safe our family. i got this time to make libya now the quantum bit where no one can stop them and they have unlimited money and weapons the western leaders were quick to praise changes across the middle east they said it was the beginning of a new democratic era for the region but the model of democracy they may have had in mind doesn't seem to be the right fit i think it has to be a different type of a democratic system. the democracy that the u.s.

would like to impose upon egypt tunisia and morocco and the other countries throughout the region and even libya where what was waged last year to topple the gadhafi government is not suitable to the people inside of that region in tunisia even though it's right. and it is coming to life from moscow. thousands of medical workers have marched in the spanish capital against plans to privatized hospital with more anti austerity protests planned over the next few days a major insists the harsh financial measures are crucial to help the country climb out of its deep recession investment advisor patrick young believes the government's approach to the crisis is exactly what landed spain in trouble in the first place the problem is that the spanish government doesn't have any money and that's ultimately the problem the difficulty with the spanish government is that it hasn't actually wanted to to bite the bullet all over the multiple areas in which it's been deficient for many many years and minutely one could say that was the

previous government run rather than the current government however the truth is there is no money to pay all of these nurses and doctors there is no money for this loutish government infrastructure it has to be privatized sold off there have to be savage cuts because truly spain has spent the last decade living on the never never it was built on the back of a huge property bubble the bubble was unsustainable nobody managed to manage that unfortunately while we can obviously say it's a tragedy for the poor independent health care professionals there's just no way to manage to find the money to pay them in modern spain the biggest shock of the whole year hasn't died of leaving the fact that the euro is held together the european union is putting on a brave face it's throwing money around the place it's trying all manner of things to hold together a cracking and creaking facade and ultimately you know they might just manage to carry it off but ultimately i think the smart money is waiting in the wings and

it's looking at the whole idea that we are going to see a euro break down even if it's not going to be as instantaneous as some of us might have predicted right out on in ten minutes past the hour moscow time is still to come on r t green with the end miti a war of words in the u.k. the government sets out to boost renewable energy many britons are questioning whether being eco friendly comes at too high a cost. plus protesters in bahrain feel the heavy hand of the state police used tear gas to disperse anti government rallies following the king's speech where he called for unity. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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thanks for joining us here on r t today armory sushi in moscow more violence has hit the streets of bahrain's capital for activists say police used tear gas on hundreds of program form demonstrators and the clashes happened on sunday after the gulf monarchies king delivered his annual national day address calling for more unity of the country's opposition though threatening more marches later this week as anti-government campaign is continue rallying against discrimination in october bahraini authorities banned all public gatherings in an attempt to stem almost two years of nonstop protests in which up to eighty people were killed and thousands arrested last week prominent human rights defender job had his prison sentence reduced this wasn't enough to calm activists who were calling on his immediate release hussein abdullah from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain says the situation won't change as long as the government is backed by the west.

whenever they come under pressure from western allies like united states or the u.k. they always talk the good talk but they never. do the walk and other wards it is simply they came under tremendous pressure from the united states to open up their political systems to start to see the lock to reform the political situation however no such serious steps has been taken for example we still see attacks on peaceful protests we still see political prisoners not to release torture still taking place human rights violations are taking place on daily basis the human rights issue as they go into behind not allowing just in the first place first the law of the king came up with a law that basically banned any kind of peaceful protests there itself this is a violation of international law so when people challenge the law that's not illegal there is a clear. here's the full stand wants comes to us foreign policy in the region

especially grain and syria where the rise violations are committed and behind on daily basis however we hear no condemn nation from the united states and we would like to see a larger scale of. diplomatic pressure and international pressure on the bahraini regime so it will basically start a serious dialogue release all political prisoners and hold the criminals are responsible who killed and tortured the citizens of. and i mean time across in syria bashar al assad's vice president says that neither the government nor the rebels have the military power to prevail in the conflict. is calling for a peaceful solution to the creation of a unity government some rebel forces have said they are open to seeing a chevron lead an interim cabinet and neighboring turkey which strongly supports the insurgents also considers the vice president a credible candidate to replace assad meanwhile damascus is on the defensive as al

qaeda linked militants claim to have captured another loyalist base as their latest advance on the battlefield while russia and china continue to lead calls against foreign intervention. we believe that the matter of this. should be decided by the syrian people not by the outside force. forces say that i don't like this guy i want to go to for the chinese not. because you are. you don't lack the leader of this country why should you decide those who should stay or go so we have a problem with these that comes statement. and you can watch out that full interview with him in again and later today on r.t. it goes on right here at six forty five pm g.m.t.

or let's get into it now they are some other global news for you in brief for the connecticut suffered the second deadliest school shooting in u.s. history is due to hold the first two of the funerals for the school children killed in their classrooms last week. president obama traveled to newtown and gave a speech condemning the country's inability to protect children and demanded changes in their response to mass shootings at the massacres spot calls for tighter laws on gun control with the easy accessibility of. being cited by many as the main reason america suffers so. libya's national assembly has temporarily sealed the country's southern front imposing emergency law in provinces near the border it's in a bid to curb the flow of illegal migrants guns and drugs coming in from four neighboring states and the border region has been riddled with lawlessness ever since last year's uprising which of course all resulted in the ousting and killing

of moammar qaddafi. and north koreans are remembering kim jong il who died a year ago today hundreds of thousands of people led by the late leader's son and successor kim jong un gathered to mourn in pyongyang at the anniversary comes just days after north korea carried out another controversial rocket launch which was condemned by world leaders of the communist country also remains economically challenged partially due to foreign sanctions. and at least seventeen killed and forty four injured in a car bombing in a crowded market in a pakistani town close to the border with afghanistan a blast occurred near the office of a government official who was believed to be the target of the regions that long been plagued with fierce fighting between the military and taliban with civilians caught up in the crossfire. are fully declared and apparently legal reports are

emerging that shuji amounts of gold are being flown out from afghanistan according to airport personnel most of it's headed to dubai which is rather a long history of being a haven for laundered money political analyst and former afghan m.p. sultanzoy says this is just a new incarnation of a trafficking racket carried out with the connivance of the afghan government. naturally when you're trying to stem the one thing from flowing away there will be other ways of doing it and that's really gold as is being used not only in lieu of dollars leaving afghanistan but also it's a very very interesting change for money launderers for drug smugglers and also there's. another angle to this which would be the dumping of gold by. regional players and even beyond the region because around afghanistan there are some central asian countries and even russia up to russia all the good producers of gold

and the drug. money that was coming into afghanistan or other bartering was taking place gold is taking a new shape in it and it's easier to carry and also the central bank of afghanistan is totally oblivious to these things and they always act after the fact the same way that they acted about after the failure of the afghan one of the afghan banks they are also always behind the curve. this is r.t. of the british government's determined to go green it's aiming for fifteen percent of the country's energy needs to be generated by renewable sources by twenty twenty or those eco friendly ambitions could come at a harsh cost for a citizens as artie's a lower smith went to find out. wind turbines turn in the breeze they might not generate much power but they're certainly putting people in a spin it's a route that dividing david cameron's coalition government to get his energy minister says he's against wind farms and enough is enough while his energy

secretary says he's going to hope for them to speak for the government the energy secretary or the energy minister or the prime minister but in this case he doesn't seem quite sure there's been no change to alter nubile energy but in the same breath he hinted the number of wind farms could be reviewed after current targets are fulfilled this would anger the liberals but greatly pleased those who say wind farms are an expensive waste of time such as landowner philip merrick's who lives near little cheney caught wind farm the locals were united against it every single democratically local organization that's the councils were against it but of course the developers very careful they dished out a lot of money to locals and of course that bought a bit of support amazingly wind farms have got a p.r. . campaign behind them but people do sing seem to think that they're helpful to the

environment which of course they're not this one's been open since two thousand and eight and during that time output has improved but it's coming from a pretty no base that only twenty one and a half percent capacity in its first year to just twenty six percent last year. there are twenty six wind turbines behind me each one of which costs in the region of two million pounds to erect according to locals we've come on a good day all the wind turbines are currently working usually they say that's not the case and a lot of the time they're just standing there and that's the rub people need electricity twenty four seven not just when the wind is blowing so wind power is still needs supplementing by fossil fueled power stations but despite its shortcomings the taxpayer folks out fifty percent of it's running costs all subsidies the right way to encourage an instruction material or actual shooting i

think what we're doing is we're rewarding inadequate technologies now and indeed with fossilised in the more infantilizing them we actually preventing growth what we really need to save these people yes well if you can improve and you can show that you've got a place in this you're welcome at the moment we're covering them with gold when in fact they're quite inadequate locals are quick to point out that less than eight kilometers away is a nuclear power station so posted by the community as a reliable source of power and local employees unlike the wind which is controlled from germany but if david cameron refuses to be blown off course the government will stick to its plans and more than double the amount of on shore wind power by two thousand and twenty to meet european targets nor smith can't. and i would certainly hope you can stay with us here on our weekly roundup of the top sporting events coming up after a short break to stay with us. i

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say. hello welcome to the r.t. sports shows thank you for joining me for a thought here's a taste of what's coming up. the big story as the russian premier league enters its three months of winter break which i can look at the time for contenders who make up the top three. plus russian stars shining the afghani mountain and india couple to match the winning goals as russia beat finland three one in moscow to retain the channel one cup. and fight night a former u.f.c. heavyweight champion and isle of ski makes a winning return as he triumph in his first fighting russia for twelve years. but first a football and as the snow starts to settle across russia the premier league has

entered its three months winter break the top three it says angie and sunnis have pulled away from the rest of the pack and confident that up assesses that championship credentials. this was the first russian premier league season to take a winter break in december and while some of the most go big guns like sports are called commodities and denominator struggling in mid table surprise packages like good wine and terry are reading high respectively in fourth and fifth yet the territories has emerged as a three horse race with just five points separating taste and zinni in the battle for the championship and the two champions league places. after bowing out of the europa league you know august to concentrate on the domestic competitions and what a run they have been on with midfielders to secure honda and forward off me.